"When we see these images, and when we read these words, something changes in us. We think: oh, but we can be creators. We can literally create the worlds that we want to see." Really needed to hear this!! Made me look back on my teenage years and everything I was reading and how I felt about it. Like i really grew up on independent feminist blogs on the internet but always coded them in gendered terms because internalized misogyny. But these were also central to my growth and pushed me think about politics and music and etc in ways that mattered to me and other young girls. But also, a lot of these spaces were run by White feminists and couldn't fully represent what I wanted/needed to see (v grateful for Rookie mag but they had a TYPE idk)
So when you write about envisioning against the grain it made me think about how we've always already been capable of creating what we need. <3 <3 <3
This resonates so deeply + is creating ripples of change through physical and digital realms. Thank you for your voice and leadership and incredibly thoughtful prose and journalism. It is an antidote and guiding light in these chaotic times.
Just popping in here to say I'm obsessed with your newsletter. It's the only one that I'll immediately click on and read entirely, word to word, the moment it reaches my inbox. As a young feminist I'm so grateful to have a resource like New Wave to look out for and learn from, especially in contextualising so much of what is happening everyday around, and to us, some of which we don't even process before the next thing happens. So thank you. <3
"When we see these images, and when we read these words, something changes in us. We think: oh, but we can be creators. We can literally create the worlds that we want to see." Really needed to hear this!! Made me look back on my teenage years and everything I was reading and how I felt about it. Like i really grew up on independent feminist blogs on the internet but always coded them in gendered terms because internalized misogyny. But these were also central to my growth and pushed me think about politics and music and etc in ways that mattered to me and other young girls. But also, a lot of these spaces were run by White feminists and couldn't fully represent what I wanted/needed to see (v grateful for Rookie mag but they had a TYPE idk)
So when you write about envisioning against the grain it made me think about how we've always already been capable of creating what we need. <3 <3 <3
This resonates so deeply + is creating ripples of change through physical and digital realms. Thank you for your voice and leadership and incredibly thoughtful prose and journalism. It is an antidote and guiding light in these chaotic times.
Just popping in here to say I'm obsessed with your newsletter. It's the only one that I'll immediately click on and read entirely, word to word, the moment it reaches my inbox. As a young feminist I'm so grateful to have a resource like New Wave to look out for and learn from, especially in contextualising so much of what is happening everyday around, and to us, some of which we don't even process before the next thing happens. So thank you. <3